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shijiujun · 3 months

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A Summary: The Spirealm | 致命游戏 (Kaleidoscope of Death 死亡万花筒 Live Action) & Why You Should (Eventually) Watch It

Talk about the most short-lived drama release ever, not even totalling two hours if I recall. Creating this summary as I've seen a handful of confused friends, so here it goes!

It's going to be a long review because I sped through all 78 episodes and only properly watched the first two doors, but I got you. You'll get both the brief book rundown and the drama parts!

If you just wanna see the bromance (LOVE) parts please skip to section 4!!!!

1. Overview

Title: The Spirealm (kinda awful I'm sorry it's a mouthful) or 致命游戏 which means fatal game

Adapted From: Danmei (BL) Kaleidoscope of Death by Xi Zixu

Novel Prints: There are GORGEOUS Thai, Vietnamese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese versions printed, AND Singapore publisher Rosmei has signed the license for the ENGLISH version, probably going on sale this year (preview is here). You can still access fan translations by Taida on I think wordpress and someone else on Tumblr sorry bad memory (they did half and half each) if you'd like to read it for context. It is one of my FAVE danmeis EVER and I am a die-hard OG book fan, check out my full danmei review here.

Total Episodes: 78 (20 minutes each with the exception of last episode which 10 minutes, with several BTS not that I think we will get to see all of them yet)

Where to Watch (LOL): Erm considering that iQIYI China AND International took the episodes down, there is no legal way to watch this, BUT thanks to some cnetz with super fast and great wifi, we managed to get ripped HD versions without subs. iQIYI is very hard on copyright though, they've taken down several subbed and unsubbed versions already on YouTube, but you should type the titles of show into Twitter and the top tags will tell you where to access the raws and very little subbed episodes, that may also be taken down at any point. I have the Chinese raws but as it's hosted on a cloud, I had to pay to access it.

Main Characters: Lin Qiushi & Ruan Nanzhu/Ruan Baijie (in the novel) and Ling Jiushi & Ruan Nanzhu/Ruan Baijie (in the drama)

Produced By: iQIYI so for SURE they won't film it fully BL even if the original is, but I've seen enough bromance cuts

Main Actors: Xia Zhiguang (Ruan Nanzhu/Ruan Baijie) + Huang Junjie (Ling Jiushi)

2. Summary

Book (drama follows closely if not removing the supernatural premises): Lin Qiushi, a designer, opens the door to his home one day from inside and sees 12 iron doors outside. Confused, he opens one of them and arrives at a snow covered village in the mid of winter, and meets Ruan Baijie, who's a pretty, unusually tall and whiny/timid woman. They realise that they're in a horrifying door game, and they'll have to find a door and a key to get out, while battling a long-haired, human-eating deity. They, along with a few others, have to survive day after day until they get out, and on the first night, two people have died in gory ways. Ruan Baijie and Lin Qiushi partner each other, and despite seemingly timid and crying all the time, she saves Lin Qiushi a few times mysteriously, and Lin Qiushi finds himself trusting in Ruan Baijie.

They get through the door together and when they leave successfully, Lin Qiushi realizes that the people who died in the door will die in real life by some freak accident too - car accidents, forced suicides, a robbery gone wrong, a lift trapped in the air and going ablaze, and more. That night, Lin Qiushi wakes up to see a super handsome and tall Ruan Nanzhu at his bedside and this man feels familiar to him, but he can't put a finger on it. All he can think of when Ruan Nanzhu says his name is Ruan Baijie (ahem he would later find out who it is of course). Ruan Nanzhu takes him to his mansion in the suburbs where he meets a group of other people just like them, who're forced to go through the doors for survival. Ruan Nanzhu then invites him to join Obsidian, his organization.

Through various doors, Lin Qiushi grows and supports a super intelligent and powerful Ruan Nanzhu, falls in love with him, gets through many many scary doors with him and some of their other team members, makes friends, loses them to the cruelty of the doors as they ponder over what the door means, and what being alive/dying means.

And at the end of it, at the end of of it all, when they're all good and living their life, Lin Qiushi also finds out what Ruan Nanzhu's secret is, and the lengths to which Ruan Nanzhu went to, just to be with him.

Drama: Ling Jiushi is a VR game designer who gets pulled into a game, and he meets Ruan Baijie (in his male form) right off the bat (SO NOT CROSSDRESSING I AM SAD). All the parts are actually the same as the novel, albeit with the game setting and Ling Jiushi and Ruan Nanzhu's identity adjustments to suit the game premise. Most of the other doors and their lines are the same, just that the ending is a bit more confusing than it could be. There's a big bad as well and they actually show the opposing organizations when in the novel, these other organizations aside from Obsidian didn't even actually have a face or goal to them.

3. Characters

^ Them in the book (based on manhua that never got to go live LOL) (RNZ/RBJ left, LQS right)

^ Them in the show (LJS left, RNZ right)

Ruan Nanzhu/Ruan Baijie: MY HANDSOME CROSSDRESSING INTELLIGENT ALOOF BUT WHINY (WHEN IT COMES TO LIN QIUSHI) SASSY BOSS!!!! He's super mysterious and super thick-skinned too, and all he wants is Lin Qiushi's attention the moment he meets him. He's intrigued by Lin Qiushi's calm and his brains and the way he handles things, and has a lot of trust for him right from the get-go. This is also shown in the drama itself. As the leader of Obsidian, he cares a lot for his team members and his friends even if he doesn't show it most of the time, and the last thing he wants to do is lose Lin Qiushi, and he would do ANYTHING for Lin Qiushi, ANYTHING!!! Just look at him whining:

Ling Jiushi (Lin Qiushi): In the novel he's super calm, has quite a lot of brains, a little bit of a blur in the beginning but he's super smart as well. Worries a lot for Ruan Nanzhu and is also a loyal friend to some of his only friends, and feels a lot when he loses them. Falls gradually in love with Ruan Nanzhu in the novel, like they just belong together. In this drama, Ling Jiushi holds that same trust for Ruan Nanzhu, but in demeanour he seems a bit more like a klutz and and not as cool as he was in the novel, but I guess it's acceptable. Literally like the only thing he loves more than RNZ (maybe) is his cat Chestnut LOL and RNZ is NOT really happy about that but Chestnut LOVES RNZ

Yixie and Qianli: CUTEST TWINS ;-; WHO TREAT RNZ and LQS as their big brothers LOOK AT THEM BOWING AND RNZ/LJS like parents LMAO

A handful of other characters who will keep turning up and get your hearts ;-;

4. ALL FAVE BROMANCE MOMENTS + TROPES

THEY TOUCH EACH OTHER A LOT LIKE HOLDING HANDS AND TOUCHING FACES, PIGGY BACKING?!?! DID I MENTION FACE TOUCHING

WHUMP WHUMP WHUMP WHUMP THEY HELP EACH OTHER WHEN HURT OR GET HURT FOR EACH OTHER

AND WHEN THEY WAKE UP IN BED THE OTHER IS AT THEIR BEDSIDE

AND DID I MENTION HE FEEDS HIM IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE

AND THAT THEY DATED UNDER THE FIREWORKS LIKE THE NOVEL DOES NOT EVEN HAVE THIS SHIT

AND THE KABEDONS

AND FINALLY RUAN NANZHU RIZZ OMG

5. Settings

They REALLY OUTDID THEMSELVES. THIS JUST FROM DOORS 1-6:

THEY LOOK EXACTLY LIKE THE NOVEL DESCRIBED!!!!

6. Overall Thoughts

PROS: This was NOT a cheap production, I'm telling you, they followed the cases very well and there're a lot of super recognisable lines, if not ALL of them, even if they changed the cases a little. I think they did it because in the novel originally, the author DOES leave a lot of details hanging like someone dies and you know he had a background and there are some shady things happening but the author NEVER actually goes into detail. So the drama did their best to cover these loopholes, even if it felt a little awkward at times. Money went into settings and attires and every damn thing, this looks EXPENSIVE. And if you've ever imagined each door and the bosses inside in your head, you might have felt chills go down your spine because damn did they really colour the book's settings for me (despite its differences). DID I MENTION that Xia Zhiguang really got the damn memo and he was a passable Ruan Nanzhu/Ruan Baijie who knew how to turn on his BL eyes. PLUS they really did some of the character deaths really well - they're technically some of the biggest parts of this story so ;-; (not two main of course)

CONS (maybe): They did away with the supernatural/horror premise and replaced it with a GAME premise, which means that there's a scientific element to it and the try to explain away stuff with the game, including the ending. I don't 100% get the ending, but the feel/vibe is about the same. Might not be for hardcore reader fans tho! They skipped out on a couple of doors, some of which were my faves, but it's fine, it's long enough LOL. They give away/explain some of the clues and surprises super early which means you don't get that added boom at the back as well. Despite that, I have to say they tried to round up the loopholes from the book as much as they could and give it an explanation while tying elements/conspiracies across doors (probably also to save cast fees LOL). And as always it's not a solid ending, it's an open confusing one, and even more confusing than the book itself because THERE IS NO CERTAIN HAPPILY EVER AFTER WITH HUBBY for it (there is in the book tho, they live together happily every after). Secondl,y, I'd say HJJ's acting is a bit stiff and OOC compared to the novel, but Xia Zhiguang really made up for it.

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HOPE THIS HELPS YOU GUYS!!! But I guess if you need subs it's going to be a long LONGGGG ride, considering that iQIYI doesn't seem to be going to be able to put it up anytime soon CRIES.

#the spirealm #致命游戏 #zhi ming you xi #kaleidoscope of death #kod #kod la #danmei #dangai #bl drama #asianlgbtqdramas #死亡万花筒 #lin qiushi #ling jiushi #ruan nanzhu #xia zhiguang #huang junjie

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tartrazeen · 8 months

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I feel like some folks don't understand what'll happen if Tumblr runs out of money.

I think that's why so many are doing the whole "we have to donate right now or else they can't make the changes we've been asking for" thing.

As a business major...

... allow me to enlighten you on exactly what'll happen if Tumblr fails to generate "enough" revenue.

Here it is!

They sell the site.

That's it.

You may remember this as being "the thing that happened the last time." Which last time, since there have been many? Exactly. Pick any of those blips in the rear-view mirror.

The site doesn't disappear or get deleted. Per capitalism, it fundamentally can't be. Automatic put money into this site, and they will not be leaving without getting money out of it one way or another: by monetizing us through Tumblr Live and tracking and no icons and letting terfs and racists roam free, or by trying to recover their loss if that never works at a turning a profit and they give up 'cause we're too high-maintenance.

This is normal Business. We're fine. Staff is pushing this so hard because they aren't fine, but if they go (i.e. "run out of money"), we get a new stepdaddy.

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And they will sell us long before we ever get to a 'boo-hoo delete the site' point because we live in a society under capitalism. You don't delete money. You sell it off to the next greedy corp. as a last resort so you get anything back on your failed investment.

Here - have some more details about that if you want:

Along with selling the site, someone else buys the site. This is the more important and yet even funnier/easier/more empowering-to-users half of the equation.

When someone sells something, it's to recoup a loss or realize a gain on their side - but either way, it's because there's something that's still valuable within the asset. Part of the sales pitch to new buyers is to therefore say, "Hey, look how profitable this website could be if you were able to tap into it the right way! Uh, why couldn't we do that? Uhhhhhhhhhhh."

The answer to that question relies heavily on why the site's being sold. If it's - as it's currently heading - along the lines of "Users are so delighted to give us money that they'll basically buy whatever you throw at them, but we're not in the business of doing infinite growth, so we're selling this to someone else who can manage that part and we'll start again with a different website." That's the best-case scenario for sellers and buyers. It's their win/win. It's them saying "I would keep making money but I don't have the infrastructure to get it all, so we're selling it to someone who can."

The answer that Yahoo got when they first bought it was some hilarious bullshit like, "Oh, uh, yeah, they're gonna be the .pdf of the future. Don't wanna miss that." Which is hilarious because it was more or less tricking Yahoo into buying a bucket of goblins. That was a win/lose on Yahoo's side, 'cause they fell for it and the old sellers got to escape with their losses cut and some money in their pocket. Same for when Verizon got it, although Yahoo was probably more honest in saying, "We didn't know this site had bees in it." Enough of a win for Yahoo to sell it, a lose on Verizon's side because they didn't know wtf to do with those bees either.

Automatic came in like, "Omg. Bees in a website. With money. We can monetize this. We can get rid of the bees. We'll take that off your hands for you, Verizon!"

And Verizon was like, "oh thank god, give us any cash you can spare"

And Automatic paid that assuming they would figure out how to finally crack through Tumblr's lack of profitability to get our sweet sweet money honey. They're forcing through Tumblr Live, for example, because if it works, they'll eventually find the optimal equation between "lose the unprofitable users" and "make maximum money." It's the same reason EA is in the business of microtransactions and doesn't give a damn about people complain until enough people reject it to actually hurt their bottom line.

If Automatic fails to do that?

They're just another Yahoo and Verizon. They sell it to the next sucker they can trick into thinking the site's a money-maker "in the right hands lmaooooo". They give up, essentially, but there's more money to be had in passing it on while the site still actively has users than it is to destroy the site entirely - because then you can't sell it for as much.

So feel free to dig in your heels and resist every single change! Send all your feedback! One-star the app! Delight in staff saying, "You're just making it harder for us!"

Yeah, good! Making staff's life harder is actually the goal. The harder we are to monetize in XYZ way, the more they have to decide if it's worth a new approach or cutting their losses. The less money they get, the more they have to either revert back to less profitable but tolerated options, or the closer they get to selling the site that's been publicly documented to hate XYZ tactics.

The worse reception these changes get, the closer the users get to an outright revolt, the more other companies go, "Eeee. You can't trick us into thinking they can be monetized." And that pushes Automatic towards one of two options:

Unload their "bad asset" onto someone else ASAP, with as positive of a spin on Tumblr's profitability as they can create

Keep the asset but accept that XYZ feature or tactic isn't getting them the cash they want, so try something else.

It's that simple. They're difficult for users to corner Automatic, of course, because Automatic bought this site with "The users are gonna try to boycott lol" rainy day funds and a lot of optimism that they could 'break' the userbase. But that's a corporate spirit that erodes once they really aren't making the money they thought they would.

Who knows? With enough documented resistance, the next owners might go in ready to embrace the existing Tumblr culture, especially if they can be convinced of how unique it is. You have nothing to lose with Automatic because they aren't interested in that. Quit panicking, this is all normal, and it's quite literally just a waiting game.

Continue to panic publicly, though! That does help. :) No - seriously, that affects Tumblr's external marketability and monetization potential, which further pushes Automatic into one of those two "sell or submit" options lmaoooo

#business #capitalism #tumblr #tumblr live #lmao

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leam1983 · 21 days

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Tech Literacy

When people think of Cosmic Horror, they usually bring out Lovecraft, Chambers - or maybe Junji Ito if you're a bit younger. Primal dread is something that's only seen as being this distant thing that's only reserved for far-off eventualities along the lines of asking yourself what would happen if, like Tetsuo Mukoda in Long Dreams, you ended up living through millennia within the span of your eight-hour sleep cycle.

For me, horror is a bit more common. Not in my own life, mind you - I'm generally copacetic with the status of physical life and base Existential concerns as we know them - but the Sales reps I work with walk a razor's edge between blithe confidence and the kind of toe-curling, balls-shrinking primitive dread that's purely the product of the modern world.

You know the kind: looming deadlines, interest rates hiking, promos falling by the wayside - or if you're exceptionally dumb on the technological level, realizing on your own that, after years on end, your entire structure depends on Google. Not Google Business, mind you - you were too cheap to spring for a plan. You just cannibalized or created a throwaway "master" Google account and tied terabytes of customer data and CRM notes to it - out in the open.

You were too cheap to spring for a plan - and now a competitor's literally and quite simply copy-pasted your entire customer base to their own Google Sheet.

What do you think happens? What happens is I'm torn out of bed, scraped out of my warm nook between Sarah and Walt, by a screeching douchebag already ODing on caffeine at 7:40 AM who's just seen decades of customer loyalty go poof.

You realize that in this moment, you're the unknowable entity, from their end of things. You're Randolph Carter with the Silver Key, you're Tetsuo Mukoda with the body-warping and mind-altering brain-crystal that turns his dreams into Chtonic excursions, full to bursting with Fel knowledge.

"You're telling me public accounts aren't secure?!"

I grunt out of sleeplessness, aware that I probably look like HAL 9000 to Dave, in that moment. I'm the Sales Rep's idea of an inscrutable being that knows things.

"I don't know what to tell you, Steve. I've been telling you this since I started at the Old Place, but you never listened."

Douchebag howls into the morning air, I hear some sort of metal bowl clatter to the floor on his end, and his voice turns thready with the sudden and full grasp of his ignorance.

"The Sales Director's going to be so pissed; they'll probably fire me..."

He hangs up moments later.

There's something strange to seeing someone else's black abyss as it yawns under their feet - and you're just some guy with front-row seats to it all.

#work post #Cosmic Horror

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asksoldieron · 6 months

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SO-12: The Spirit of Harpo Marx

If there's a lot of engagement on this, this post is liable to get real long, beware before you expand.

Welcome to the Engagement Lounge, for Alight at the Window (SO-12) an instalment! Short comments can go in the replies, but there's a 475 character limit. Longer ones will need a reblog. Remember to @asksoldieron if you're reblogging someone else's reblog, so I can see it too!

Awwwwww, ya know? Awwwwww ❤️!

Poor Erik is in ⚡🔋no shape🔋⚡ to communicate, but he's doing his best. Maggie has no idea whether he's messing with her on purpose, or what's wrong with him, but she won't let him go. They'll get to him eventually. (I've just finished that part, actually. They've got him! Uh. Sorta. At least he's... safe now? 😅Oh, I can't say that with a straight face.)

This is the last of my queued posts/instalments, and I have no idea where my reading and drawing ability will be when it goes live. If I can't update you on my condition (and the condition of the next six instalments) I'll hafta have the spouse type a note for me. I want to do six more right away, or I might take a two week break, or - if I'm really struggling - it'll be a break of indeterminate length. I hope I'll be okay to just keep going, my Patrons have been so patient this year. Thanks, y'all.

But, either way, there will be a break at some point, because I'll have a while where I can't write or draw and that's going to eat up my backlog. Also, recent updates have done more stupid things to my theme and I think the site needs a redesign - maybe including some radical simplification. I'm just not mobile friendly and I can't make the current format behave. People with better eyesight than me do a lot of reading on their phones.

I have no idea how to build a community and I'm flailing, really, but maybe if I can get the interface more convenient, more people will like me? (I have no idea. Probably they won't.)

Look, though! You've got some extra art to tide you over! And a song!

I'm not in love with how Erik's design looks right now - he looks like a train wreck, but he should look like a train wreck. Nobody is going to fix his hair. I still feel self-conscious about it. He used to be cute. I've got to do a full-body rendering of how he'll clean up, but I don't have time for it now.

However, I did do a page of something trying to get comfortable with his ability to emote in train reck form. I don't have time to finish it, but I think it looks cool so I'm sharing.

This is potentially a way for me to serve you the music without lyric backgrounds that you can't read! It's very labour-intensive, but I was figuring out how to do it and it might get a little easier with practice. Also, my current tablet is struggling with the resolution and I plan to update it by the end of the year - depending on sale prices.

After I saw Hedwig and the Angry Inch, I found out the original Off-Broadway incarnation had filked music with lyrics by John Cameron Mitchell. 🥹😊I'm calling it! This is something other people sharing my identity do to tell their stories! Filk musicals are an enby thing! We do not give a shit about the music industry's copyrights! I'm performing nonbinary correctly!

So here's the lyrics again, and maybe I'll give you the rest in comic form as my vision and my tools improve.

You Are Found! (based on "We Are Young" by fun.) I need a minute, I… I don’t know if I’m ready yet I’m tryin’ to get my shit together, Maggie, please don’t be upset My family must be looking for me somewhere very near Guess I knew you must be coming but I can’t believe you’re here, and… It’s been forever since I’ve seen your face I know you want to take me home But although it hurts to do this work they need my help for what it’s worth — Oh, gods I’m not sure if I wanna go So maybe if, next time you see me, You can take me by the hand, You’ll steal me away At last I am found So I guess the party’s over Time to get sober, and come down At last I am found So I guess the party’s over Time to get sober, and come down No, I wanna go home I’m just not done I guess that I, I just hoped We could visit and I’d get right back to work But I can’t go yet So I must forget 'Cause I think you’ll hafta steal me away At last I am found So I guess the party’s over Time to get sober, and come down At last I am found So I guess the party’s over Time to get sober, and come down Steal me away at last (na na na na na na) Come steal me away at last (na na na na na na) Steal me away at last (na na na na na na) Come steal me away at last (na na na na na na) The gods have their own plan (na na na na na na) But I’m just one weary man (na na na na na na) So you're gonna hafta steal me away at last (na na na na na na) I have so much to do (na na na na na na) How can I go with you? (na na na na na na) So you're gonna hafta steal me away (na na na na na na) At last I am found So I guess the party’s over Time to get sober, and come down At last I am found So I guess the party’s over Time to get sober, and come down So maybe if, next time you see me, You can take me by the hand You’ll steal me away at last

See you soon! Ha, I hope!

Late edit: Two week break, folks. No drawing ability yet, so we're stuck with it. I still hope to get you the next six by the end of the year. I'll keep you posted!

[Back to Site?]

#tin soldier and soldier on #instalment #engagement lounge #music #covers #comic #lyrics

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shantyslimes · 10 months

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The frustrating thing about being a One Piece fan is the whole notion of "I don't want to watch a show that takes 200 episodes to get good" like. Yeah. Neither would I. One Piece starts being good when Luffy jumps out the barrel and stops being good when you stop watching. It's just that we as fans are really bad at selling why we stayed with One Piece until its grip over us was so strong that we start complaining 1000 episodes just isn't long enough, so here's my helpful guide on how to convince your friends to try:

Step 1: don't push. Above all else remember, if you force someone to do something against their will, they'll be against it even if it's something they end up liking. Do you really want to taint the series for someone before they even start? Of course not. By all means, talk about it, say you think they'd like it, be excited, just don't force them to start it as well. If ever you're suggesting it, make sure it stays a suggestion, an invitation, and of they say no, accept that. You can still bring it up later, but because you're passionate and would love to see them enjoy it too.

Step 2: Avoid anything after Arlong Park. This sounds a little weird, but it's actually not to do with spoiler concerns! Because we've been with the series a while, it's easy to lose perspective on how long it takes to get to some stuff. I once saw someone try to persuade a friend by explaining Wano to them, a cool 850 chapters into the story. If that works, then yeah cool they're watching, but they just want to get to "the good stuff" you sold them on. Keep your sales pitches to the early content, how cool those early arcs are, because people usually make the choice to hard commit to One Piece around Arlong Park, so if they see the great moments there, then they can have fun with the whole new world of possibilities. If you're watching with them and they don't mind spoilers, point out some of the world details. "Oh that hypnotist, if you look during his flash back then you can see he hypnotized Axehand Morgan to make him think he's a hero!" Or "oh yeah Sanji still calls Zeff his dad like 700 episodes later even to his birth dad." Or just cry when they get the Going Merry that's usually pretty dramatic. That said, talking about your emotional reactions to later stuff is fine! Such as seeing the Merry and just saying "Not even kidding, they made me cry over that boat" because you did. We all did.

Step 3: Answer questions. If they ask you something, don't be afraid to answer! If someone's interested enough to ask (particularly if you're mid infodump) then that's something they want to know more of! Probably preface it with a "Do you mind spoilers?" But do answer it. If they say no, that's fine because they get more info. If they say yes, it's because they're thinking about watching.

Step 4: Know what your friends like. This is true of recommending anything, but if your friends have a particular taste, One Piece probably has something for them provided it's not hardcore horror or straight up porn. Simply put, everyone laughs, everyone cries, everyone has a favourite colour. Do they like cool guys fighting? Zoro uses three swords and the first time he does it he stops like 10 people in their tracks! Do they like a female character with depth and nuance? Just point out that Nami has good reasons for everything she does, and that her complex history is still relevant much later (namely in Fishman island but shhh). No matter the types of characters they like, there will eventually be a Strawhat they'd love. Speaking of which, don't spoil moments sure, but talk about future characters all you want. The 9 foot tall skeleton with an afro? Sure! The cyborg powered by cola? Why not!? Remember, sell a moment, and it eventually passes. Sell a character, and you're selling everything that character ever does.

Step 5: Just one shot. If your friend is on the fence, then hit them with the final big deal; just to the end of Arlong Park. You don't even have to go through everything, just start at Arlong Park as a taster. For some this is sacrilege, how dare you skip? Well it's like I said, the moment you know if you care is in Arlong Park, specifically Nami finally asking for help for most. Show your friend that full arc, up to Luffy defeating Arlong. This is where the other points come in, because naturally a tonne of questions will arise. "Why is Zoro beat up like that?" He fought the best swordsman in the world and nearly died! "Why does Usopp's nose so long?" He's a liar! "Why is Luffy so hellbent on helping this girl? She's so mean to him!" Because he decided she's his friend and she's too traumatised to trust people! Now, this is where an exception arises: if they ask something that's coming up, then maybe instead of a direct answer, try "Let's find out" or something similar. But if it's urgent that they need to know (such as for triggers or anything) just answer them immediately. Remember your friends boundaries and respect them. If they like the arc, then they now have a lot more stuff they've not seen so they can fully understand it, or keep going! If you do keep going though, remember to explain the important points they missed (namely Koby, how they got the Merry, the fight with Mihawk and Baratie). But remember, if they don't want to go back, let them continue. They're excited to keep going! Don't halt the momentum now, especially with all the good stuff coming up.

Anyway, good luck with the adventure, pals 🤘

#one piece #anime

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theomnicode · 2 years

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Romeo, Juliet, Psychostimulants & Parallel world & Meta ramblings

So I recently made a romeo and juliet Saigenos post and I had forgotten that there was an actual CD drama with Saitama playing romeo and Genos as the juliet...

And there's a particular line that caught my attention. Besides the uh, tragedy aspect that Saitama would follow Genos to his apparent death. Which I already hypothesised on my own since that is what he does when Genos dies on him.

Because he, unfortunately, has some suicidal tendencies which a lot of people tend to forget about Saitama. In his darkest moments, he has considered it or attempted it and if Genos was to die, his heart can't take the loss. Anyways...

(I wish I had the full translation but this'll have to do)

(the end of this meta rambling is kind of long since I'm tired so bear with me lol)

Paraphrasing, but I'll work with what I have. I can't find translation elsewhere. :(

What got my attention were these two lines:

He then asks Dr. Kuseno to give him a "poison" that will fake his death so that he can eventually end up running away with Saitama. The bottle is the poison that Dr. Kuseno prepared, but if a normal human drinks it, they'll probably die.

Remember guys when Genos asked Kuseno for psychic powers because if he had them, he could have saved sensei's crabs, in one of the OVA's? Well...

That looks suspiciously like a bottle of poison, doesn't it?

A bottle of poison to boost psychic/cognitive powers. A psychostimulant.

Something that also made Psykos more vulnerable to God's powers too.

I am not sure, if bottle of poison is a direct reference to this, or if it's a metaphor about the poison that is divine power.

Hiziki has been mentioned bunch of times. Toxic food item in high quantities. As food item and something that Genos is seen carrying. It's a product in the sale leaflet that Saitama has a breakdown about when defeating Carnage Kabuto because he's late from a sale.

So the metaphor for toxic food item that he cannot resist, negative emotions following a breakdown, seems to be pretty clear. Kinda like when he threw that super angry punch at Garou.

Recent studies have shown that hijiki contains potentially toxic quantities of inorganic arsenic, and the food safety agencies of several countries (excluding Japan), including Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, have advised against its consumption

Arsenic is a fairly classic poison in a bottle. King of poisons with a murderous history.

Since the very earliest of times poisons have been used as a means for settling old scores, instruments for personal advancement, as a means to execute criminals and by those who found life to be an intolerable burden.

Divine power might be the poison. Bottled up emotions, so to speak. Or maybe even imprisoned emotions.

Or, another hypothesis.

I have thought in the past about what would happen if Saitama took hallucinogens too. The results would be that he could go into psychosis and have paranoia, because of the way they interact with his cognitive powers. Don't put Saitama near psychostimulants.

Poison in the bottle might be medicine too. The saying "choose your poison" comes to mind.

What you say when someone's supposed to choose between two horrible options. You could either chop off your toe or you can stab yourself with that piece of broken glass. Pick your poison.

"The origin is simply that since the mid-19th century "poison" has been slang for alcoholic drink (in Australia a pub was known as a "poison-shop"). This may refer to the Latin root "toxicum" (meaning "poison")of the word "intoxicate", or it may just be a reference to the bad effects of excessive drinking. Thus the phrases "what's your poison?" "Pick your poison" and "choose your poison" arose naturally.

Might be a reference to how Saitama would have to pick between two horrible options for him at some time.

Psychostimulant for something like treating adhd. Saitama has a lot of adhd like symptoms honestly, most likely related to his powers. Genos tries to preserve Saitama's crabs, metaphor for hearty and positive emotions because he worries for his emotional and mental state all the time. It's not that farfetched to think that he would want to find a way to increase Saitama's quality of life if he finds a way to diagnose that Saitama has adhd.

In the CD drama, Saitama is dying from poisoning himself, something that King narrates. King is suspiciously is wearing the Zoo-men shirt in this Omake with the metaphor for eye of prominence, being a reference to the watchful eye of God.

It may also be a reference to conspiracy theory, where eye of prominence is often used. That Saitama's bottle of poison is a "choose your poison" type of scenario, where he will die from some kind of "poisoning" unless he does what King suggests in this chapter, working as a group, holding hand, believing in his companions to give them strenght.

Taking excessive medicine is suicidal behaviour, like drinking poison. Poison mushroom and energy drink seems like a fitting metaphor for poison in a bottle which works as a mental stimulant. And psychostimulant for Saitama would cause paranoia and hallucinations and he'd go full Mob Psycho ??? and he'd probably have an actual seizure too and start to think that everyone is an enemy around him in his psychosis.

Corn soup flavoured energy drink from vending machine is metaphor for hearty emotions and mental stimulants that cause artificial evolution of species, taken from God's cube. Saitama mentions corn when he speaks to Choze who talks about selective breeding of his bloodline. Which is basically eugenics in a nutshell. God's cube is a vending machine for artificial evolution as it grants wishes, so beings can gain divine power and transform like Garou.

A clash of reality and ideals is painful, if his cognitive mind is boosted far beyond what it should normally be, kinda akin to how it was on I.O where he did not remember what happened and there was a reference to epileptic seizure. It might be when Saitama can finally perceive the Unknown properly. The abyss itself. Inescapable reality that King in the omake says that "you have no choice but to watch it."

The truth of reality. That the heavens is stone cold, isolated, emotionless and immoral and the monster side, the abyss, has the actual life. Like how Saitama has to accept his monster side to find his spirit, because he thinks his emotional response is somehow monstrous. The key seems to be to gaze into the abyss.

Note the small vitruvian man Saitama on the left side.

According to the biographer Walter Isaacson, the use of delicate lines, an intimate stare and intricate hair curls, "weaves together the human and the divine".

"It's still for children" refers to the inner child, the infantile feeling of omnipotence and the happy ending in kid's show.

Intelligence is present; motor activity but no symbols; knowledge is developing yet limited; knowledge is based on experiences/ interactions; mobility allows the child to learn new things; some language skills are developed at the end of this stage. The goal is to develop object permanence, achieving a basic understanding of causality, time, and space.

"That kind of wishful thinking will get one killed one day".

How ominous when I've been talking about God's cube and how it grants wishes.

Genos is the spy of the enemy, the monsters, as Child Emperor guesses, but said secret mission plan blows up.

He then asks Dr. Kuseno to give him a "poison" that will fake his death so that he can eventually end up running away with Saitama. Because he's a cyborg, it wont affect him. However, he ends up forgetting where he put the poison and then randomly detonates.

Funnily enough, OPM God has only ever appeared to people in fatherly figure forms. And Dr. Kuseno sees Genos as a surrogate grandson. Ergo, he's a fitting father figure for Genos.

So what about them parallel worlds then?

I'm going to ramble a bunch of meta references from now on, because I'm trying to put these thoughts into paper

Lets try to imagine a scenario. There's some themes that happen and the OPM High school drama is an AU, so we'll treat it as parallel universe scenario and "what-if." So I'll try for deconstruction of the themes.

Person 1: There it is, standing in front of the spacecraft! This is trouble, your mom got a call from someone, saying she was your fiancee! Person 2: No, it can't be! And the alien's been taken out. Person 1: She contacted me too. "Everyone in my way has been eliminated. I can't wait for our date tomorrow." Person 2: I never agreed to any dates! The woman's more dangerous than the aliens! Genos asks Saitama to take him in as his disciple, but because of their opposing families, Saitama says it's difficult. Genos ends up thinking of a plan so that they can run away together to a place where no one can interrupt his studies under Saitama as a disciple, but he runs into Charanko, who is randomly Tybalt. Genos ends up killing Tybalt because he's getting in his way.

I'm all here for Genos trying to elope with Saitama lmfao. xd

Tybalt is Romeo's rival in the play and the only rival to Saitama who I can think of (similar to charanko) is Garou. Juliet's short tempered first cousin. Sleek yet violent manner. But it may also be a reference to Nyan, prince of cats.

But in all honesty, it's probably a reference to how Genos wants Saitama's powers to time travel. I can't think of a reason why Genos would not want to go back in time to save his family and kill the mad cyborg if he knows how. It's the one thing he desires most in the world, to be able to take revenge.

Genos has a bone to pick with Garou though. And if Garou remembers anything at all about the consequences of using divine power and getting under the thrall of God and monsterizing as a result and then time traveling, he would try to warn Saitama of the consequences.

We also know Genos is jealous af though and won't be having any of that. He gets mad if fangirls try to vie for Saitama's attention.

Genos already has divine power in the form of his new core, so what he needs is the cognitive powers.

He might attempt to break his limits. Simulate death. To get enough power to time travel. To preserve Saitama's positive emotions. Maybe he wants to go back alllll the way so Saitama won't ever suffer from depression.

(how to become creepy stalker handbook 101)

He might get his hands on God's cube and/or Psykos psychostimulant and attempt to use that.

Dr. Kuseno is the father figure and possibly metaphor for God in this case. That or it is actually Dr. Kuseno who has hidden shit like God's cube all this time (dude what the fuck that would be hella good reason for organization to attack him) or reference to Dr. Genos who's expertise is genetic engineering and an expert in subject of breaking limitations. Could also be a reference to Dr.Bofoi.

Or bear with me...my craziest idea that Dr. Genus is legitimately Genos grandfather. At least genetically related.

And then I look at them side by side and it suddenly doesn't sound so crazy after all. Because my God they actually look similar. Same nose, same eye shape and lashes, eyebrows, profile...

*shifty eyes*

You know... I'm beginning to wonder...if Genos circumstances aren't similar to that of Zombieman. It would explain a loooooot.

And that if cyborg isn't a metaphor for half human, half monster. Half divine person. A hybrid.

Emotionless Terminator that wants to annihilate the human race, as Genos' face has been depicted a fair bit.

Add in God's cube to the mix and you can get some...interesting hybrids.

Nice "medical" research you got there, HA. Selling to the highest bidder eh? Monsters that can regenerate scales would be pretty valuable. As infinite genetic material samples.

Is Kuseno actually looking for...not a cyborg but a maddened half human half monster hybrid? HMMM.

Anyways

Genos thinks it won't affect him because he's a cyborg, so he won't monsterize like Garou did or get any sort of negative effects right?

Right? (if the half human, half monster metaphor is correct, then it should not affect him)

It might spectacularly backfire on him anyway. Because he already has divine power inside his core and his brain. He might actually spiritually die or his inner universe might explode. He's not equipped to handle that much power and it would be his undoing. Amai-mask warns him about being a hothead and getting burned for it and in this case, it might be literal. Kuseno warns that his young mind would be his undoing, might be literally again.

Or it might be a reference to the OVA where Genos loses his memory and Saitama accidentally death slaps him. Because he forgot where he put his poison into, his jealousy and possessiveness. Daybreak chapter cover symbolism for heartbreak, because Genos becoming dubiously evil to get what he wants would break Saitama's heart.

Saitama finds Genos "dead" and the line that King narrates is that "he painfully grieved over Genos." Saitama says "hey Genos...are you really dead? You're all beaten up..." in a sad voice. He then says "hmm, anyway I'm kind of thirsty right now" and sees a bottle next to Genos.

This would be the Saitama grieving over Genos dead body scene that was stolen from us by time travel fix-it. ;_;

Saitama will always grieve over Genos, no matter what kind of death.

And then yeah...uh, Saitama gives in and picks his poison. The bottle of psychostimulants or the god's cube or simply gives in to God's influence because he craves to have Genos back. He needs water as well as sunlight, else he is not able to grow and have a life of his own.

If he takes either of them, or god forbid, both, we'd have a psychotic Saitama in our hands. Or the poison may be a metaphor for poisonous emotions too.

The bottle is the poison that Dr. Kuseno prepared, but if a normal human drinks it, they'll probably die. So he drinks it and Genos wakes up randomly and cradles Saitama as he cries, "Saitama-sensei, why are you here? Why did you drink the poison?" and Saitama is "dying."

I'm not sure if Genos waking up randomly is because Saitama enters the spiritual space because he goes psychotic, is dying or sees the truth of reality.

But if Genos "dies" and then Saitama also "dies", they would probably both end up in the spiritual realm yes. Same place where Garou was when God spoke to him after Sai punched him and same place as Child emperor.

And God no longer is gonna co-op with Saitama nope. As it probably has been pulling the strings behind the lines all this time. It'll just leave Saitama's body to die a miserable death when his brain fries itself or something like that.

Genos then says, "It's okay, Saitama-sensei. I will ask Dr. Kuseno to save you by turning you into a cyborg." King then narrates that Saitama becomes a cyborg, and he and Genos live happily ever after. THE END.

Genos be like: Everyone fucking dies ending.

Saitama turning into a monster because he goes full Mob Psycho ??? paranoid would probably end the world yea. Or turning into a monster bent on destroying humanity, a cyborg. Break causality, space and time and warp the reality.

Or maybe Genos makes a bargain with God. To save Saitama. Oof.

That's a heavy, heavy bargain to make.

King: No, happy ending.

It doesn't sound like happy ending to me King lol. It's a tragedy. But maybe...it's a parallel world. Parallel world happenings is all about choices.

Such as that if Saitama actually continues to have actual friends and ignore the bottle of poison and make good choices, then we'll not get THE END but Happy ending.

Rock-paper-scissors game he has to play that he is determined to win. Against God.

(God has taken on the visage of Bang already, Genos got oneshot in the Game but Saitama is determined to win)

When one tries to do actions on touchscreen immediately after picking their nose. The booger remnants on the finger cause the finger to stick to the surface of the touchscreen.

The fig sign is a mildly obscene gesture used at least since the Roman Age in Italy, Southern Europe, parts of the Mediterranean region, including in Turkish culture, and has also been adopted by Slavic cultures and South Africa. The gesture uses a thumb wedged in between two fingers. This gesture is most commonly used to ward off the evil eye, insult someone, or deny a request. It is also used more innocuously in Northwestern Europe and countries such as the UK, US, Canada, Australia, The Netherlands and Czech Republic to pretend taking the nose off a child.

It is impossible to gain an advantage over an opponent that chooses their move uniformly at random. However, it is possible to gain a significant advantage over a non-random player by predicting their move, which can be done by exploiting psychological effects or by analyzing statistical patterns of their past behavior. As a result, there have been programming competitions for algorithms that play rock paper scissors.

During tournaments, players often prepare their sequence of three gestures prior to the tournament's commencement. Some tournament players employ tactics to confuse or trick the other player into making an illegal move, resulting in a loss. One such tactic is to shout the name of one move before throwing another, in order to misdirect and confuse their opponent.

In its ICD-10 disease classification, the WHO defines nose picking as "other functional and emotional disturbance usually beginning in childhood or adolescence"

Or maybe...it's actually because Genos already went alllll the way back in time to Saitama's childhood to preserve Saitama's happiness. And inadverently caused his powers. To change his fate.

There's a potential reference to bottle of poison in Disney's hercules. Mortal potion.

Hades concocts a potion to make baby Hercules mortal so that he can kill him. Hades instructs his sidekicks, Pain and Panic, to administer the potion to Hercules, who becomes mortal as he drinks the potion, but keeps his godlike strength, as he does not drink the last drop. Pain drops the bottle when he and Panic hear Amphitryon and Alcmene coming, and the bottle breaks.

I can't help but think Pain and Panic are Sonic references. Or maybe Flashy flash even, because Saitama perceives him to be in emotional pain from loneliness.

Might explain why Saitama immediately trusted Genos and fast and why he's always making these Saitama comments about Sonic.

"Seed-on-the-ground...?" "No wait, "Lost-and-found...?"

A jack-o'-lantern (or jack o'lantern) is a carved turnip, pumpkin or other root vegetable lantern,[1] commonly associated with the Halloween holiday. Its name comes from the reported phenomenon of strange lights flickering over peatbogs, called will-o'-the-wisps or jack-o'-lanterns. The name is also tied to the Irish legend of Stingy Jack, a drunkard who bargains with Satan and is doomed to roam the Earth with only a hollowed turnip to light his way.

And now I can't help but think that there's a connection with Saitama's childhood, the ninja village in WC, Flash and Sonic and God's cube.

The OVA death blow from Saitama and Genos losing his memory, reminds me of Garou's soul traveling back in time to say goodbye to Tareo and influencing past Garou's actions, but Garou not remembering any of it. It's also the OVA episode where Saitama says to Genos that he wanted to become his disciple, but Genos has no memory recall whatsoever.

Genos also manages to burn Saitama's shirt from his heart, reads manga about romance, tries to woo fubuki, loses his sense of self, gets a sudden feeling and being almost forced by unknown power to move to certain place to trigger a memory recall about Saitama and sales and his original mission to be there; to preserve Saitama's happiness.

Fubuki has a fun reference to yakuza culture with Gunshot Genos.

Yakuza culture states that all followers are teppodama (鉄砲玉, lit. "rifle ball"), bullets to be fired by their superiors. The bullet does not think for itself; it is simply aimed and released.

To which Genos answers "You seem to be mistaking me for someone else! That's not who I am."

Blizzard of Hellstorm may be a reference to the God below which appeared to Homeless emperor in gust of wind, nature elements. It's a pun. And that Genos is a spy of God and a weapon to be used against Saitama.

(Yea so, that's a lot of ramblings and my brain is mildly fried because I didn't sleep that well and I've been cooking this for few days and forgot my train of thoughts, so enjoy the uh meta rambling.)

(Currently trying to deconstruct OVA's, which is more fun haha)

#opm #one punch man #saitama #opm meta #opm speculation #opm manga panels #opm anime screencaps #romeo and juliet #psychostimulant #genos #opm god #king

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Yeah Trump took it over and it sucks and I want to do something else and this is what it is it's a great idea and I have the design everybody's ready to go on it and Stan wants to do it but we can't do it withstand so he says is you start up the company to do it and Stan will probably try and take it over at some point. This other things to do out there construction for instance and he says it's a weak spot but really that was Daniel screwing up he is the block and we do understand that and then we need to get the kids and then the kit car will turn into a car so Stan wants to take it over after that makes sense or turn into a car and we do understand that so this is going forwards and these ideas are valuable and it works and we do understand that it does work were getting ready to try and put together a package together sometime it was going forward right now

-and we are now going to announce what's happening here

-we have 7% evacuating they're all getting ready and it is out of 16.5% and they're moving out and fast and they're trying to leave and everybody is saying that the empire is taking over Saturn and Eastern Easter is coming so you want to use it as a threat they say. They are moving out at 3% have left so we moved the number to 13.5% for real. 4% are getting ready 2% will leave before midnight we think and we'll update it then and the number might increase shortly so we're going to publish

Thor Freya

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You're a bum. That's all there is to it but I will show you when I'm helping and you have seen it before. But these are good ideas you're having and it does make electrical vehicles work. And eventually use alkaline it is a smart thing to do so people don't get stupid we are using the idea yeah and I do see what you're saying BG doesn't own the company anymore and he doesn't and they can't do business with Stan and BG has been actually making companies come alive and ideas come alive and electric stuff too and it works pretty good. It works okay good enough and it's a simple design and he does HVAC stuff and he knows the people here comes something though he knows people there who are pseudo empire but there are other people that he uses and we're going to have to do that. And I do see what he's saying they'll have to do something else and the block is the idea and we can make the block and they can't they can sub it to us to as a supplier and begin as a distributor they're thinking about that but they want to use the bill and a whole bunch of stuff and we like building stuff and they do know how to do things right and they want loads already so I'm starting to work on it now and I'm going to get permission and they mentioned they wanted stuff but you're right we have to have a meeting and they don't know where we are who we are which is true but we are in the Midwest and we're near one of his places and we'll do a sales call he says that's good

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okay, well today was a bit all over the place, but mostly good. I woke up at 8:45 initially and checked my phone, then went back to sleep until like 10 and then got up. roommate had the day off, so she was around while I worked on stuff. I spoke to my mom around 11, a bit about my sister but also about my brother's wedding and me kinda being left out of things (my sister being a bridesmaid and my brother being a groomsmen and me just not being in the wedding party) but she said they were going to have something "special" planned for me and his fiance's siblings (but she didn't know what it was) who are also apparently not going to be in the wedding party, so I guess that's better than nothing, but I didn't really want to push it anymore. on the one hand I'm like it probably makes sense because I'm not in NY and I'm sure there are going to be events where they'll want the bridesmaids to be there and I don't want to have to be flying to NY constantly, but at the same time I still feel kinda shitty about the whole situation and I know it's going to bother me a lot when we get to it. so idk, I may bring it up with my brother and see what he says. This is dumb, but I'm a little annoyed my sister got to be one and not me because I'm pretty sure my sister never talks to my brother's fiance anyway?? Like I feel like they barely know each other too lol. oh well. did some work of course, and then most of our afternoon was centered around getting tickets to the NCT concert, which ended up being a whole mess. the tickets for Newark were going on sale for 2 (we're going to the LA show) so we logged on for that and saw how long the queue was taking and such, and ended up grabbing two tickets just to have an possible resell, we'll see. but then the LA tickets went on sale at 5 and of course it was a shitshow, took forever to get in, and then when we did it was impossible to get tickets because whenever you'd click on something you'd get the message that someone else got them first. they have the worst system, I swear. we did end up getting tickets in the top section, and I stayed on afterwards trying to get anything better but it didn't work. so mixed feelings there, but at least glad we got tickets. afterwards we went portillo's because I wanted a hot dog lol then we just chilled for the rest of the night. eventually I got tired and showered and got ready for bed, and now I'm here and ready for sleep. Goodnight loves. Hope your Monday didn't suck.

#daily journal #August 2022 #almost the end of August!!

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a/n: Heyyyy! Thanks for your request! Have no idea as into why your text came out like that and not as a bubble... guess I'm still not good at using this platform, so I used a different font for your request, hope you don't mind

Before getting started, I HOPE you didn't accept those things from your ex, it's rule n.1: NEVER, EVER, EVER GET BACK WITH YOUR EX, There's a reason why you two broke up, so leave it like that and move on! (Please let me know what you did because I'm getting worried here)

Also, roses that are going to die soon and 100 bucks? Really? First of all, why? It's not like you're on sale (besides for such a miserable amount...)!

P.s (food is always the best choice anyways)

Let me know if my writing was okay and what happened afterwards with your ex!!!

➳ Masterlist

JJK MEN HEADCANON:

Their ex shows up at their front door with a special gift

Gojo: confused but will accept, besides, he's definitely not stupid to refuse money and pretty flowers for a pretty boy.

He doesn't get the reason why they came to see him at first, but then obviously his enourmous ego will take over to say that it was because everyone can't get enough of him as he's the best at everything, litterally everyone falls for him in an istant and so did they, how could they move on after meeting him? Impossible, right?

He won't be afraid to say this things out loud and more, ready to tease them (and subtly humiliate them,) with both sweet and sour words

Will probably invite them in and there are a high chances of ending up in bed with him

That was for sure the last time they saw him though. After that, he was unreachable and impossible to find, he made sure that they'll never get to see him again (try to understand him, it's for pure satisfaction...)

The reason for the previous point? Well, think about it, he's known to be a hoe, so one night stands and occasional meetings would be a routine for him; but what about an actual relationship? What if he eventually agrees on dating someone? I believe that although he might not show it, he must have been heartbroken for whatever happened that caused a split up, the only way to cope with that? One night stand and a little humiliation, no feelings, just fun (and frustration)

Agrees with me: if they had brought food, it would have been wayyy better (he would have preferred sweets, but he'll buy them with the money they gave him)

Nanami: A gentleman that will try his best to say no to the offer and politely invite them for coffee (not because he wants to, but for good manners), will *calmly* slam the door as they exit his house and deeply sigh

He dates for love, not adventures. He's truly committed and will do anything for his someone; the break up was unexpected and it hurt a lot, since he convinced himself that maybe he needed to finally get over his insecurities made for his job and go for it, believing that the power of love would have been stronger than anything

You can imagine how confused he was, not understanding what was happening, as a lot of flashbacks of the time passed together kept coming up to his mind. The taste was bitter, he hated it, he hated seeing their ex. He didn't want to relive the moment

Mama didn't raise an awful man anyway, so he will reluctantly welcome them home, making sure to not even touch them or getting too close

He will always ignore and reject all the offers made and for sure refuse the gifts, particularly the money

Will offer some coffee and hope that they'll get out soon

His ex will try everything and he was this close to give up, but luckily he remained composed and adamant

Stern look on his face, arms crossed, tapping his fingers and checking every now and then his watch while standing at the furthest place possible across the room, not really listening to the conversation, but thinking about his previous relationship

He might look cold, but please understand that it's just because he doesn't want his heart to be broken again

He'll eventually accept the flowers, as a quick way to get rid of them (just remebered in the manga panel that Nanami has different plants at home, and my heart fluttered a little)

Will cancel all of his appointments afterwards, as he still has to process everything. Apparently, he didn't get over it yet

Will be more irritated than usual, to the point that even Gojo will leave him alone

Geto: Surprised but will be calm and very good at faking interest

Didn't expect a visit from his ex, and will be quite surprised

Will kindly ask the reason and welcome them home to smash talk

Will carefully listen and reply with interest to their ex, happily accepting the presents, offering some tea and have good convo with them, truth is, he doesn't even slighlty care (what a great actor)

They "casually" end up in bed

Will ghost them as soon as he closes the door

Will brag about them with Gojo as they have a delicious meal with the money given and post it on social media with some corny and subtly mean caption dedicated to his ex (mean girls vibess)

Sukuna: Slices them at the front door

They're lucky they weren't already dead by the time the break up came up!

Absolutely confused, will get on his defensive and attack with very harsh words, and fake disinterest on their visit

"Know your place, you fool", the AUDACITY to come back after he spared your life?

Then again, with money? Flowers? What is this? A funeral? (It's soon going to be anyway)

High chances his ex is going to casually "disappear" for a very long time

Note: the ex should have come with food (It's canon that Sukuna's favourite hobby is eating)

Toji: Takes the money and runs

Will probably take advantage of the situation as soon as he sees the money (completely ignores flowers)

Will welcome them home with a big grin, appearing like the sweetest man in the world

Will ask anything and fake interest on their ex's visit, eyes still glued on the money, replying with hums and nodding his head

Absolutely snatches the money from their hands, and immediately puts it in his pockets holding it as his dear life depended on it

Will ask them to stay and take all the required time

Will use the flowers given to make his stinky bed and bath more "romantic"

Will use them till they're broke and he's bored

Note for the ex: congratulations on using an effective mode to both be used and become poor, beacuse this man won't let you go till he says so

Choso: Incredibly awkward and confused

Doesn't get the reason of the visit

In full defence mode, as he doesn't want his feelings to be hurt again

Will weirdly accept the gifts and silently welcome them home with a judgemental look on his face

Is afraid something bad will happen, so they'll take extra caution like Nanami, by staying as far as he can from them

Initially doesn't like the idea of seeing them, but turns out to be a quite peaceful conversation and had some quality time

As soon as he gets the actual intention will stand up and kindly escort them out giving back the gifts as he closes the door muttering a simple "Thank you for the visit" almost impossible to hear as he sighs and thinks about the relationship with them

Will probably cry a little

Annndd that is all, I guess... should have posted that wayy earlier but I always felt asleep and forgot to keep writing it and finish, but I guess it's done...

Let me know how it was and leave a few suggestions that I might add, and don't be afraid to make more requests!

Byeee!

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Hi, i hope your doing well <3 So, my ex just randomly showed up at my house with roses and $100 🧍🏾‍♀️ so i wanted to see how the jjk characters would react to their S/O’s ex showing up at their door w/ money and roses😭 you can do whoever you’d like but can one of them be Nanami PLEASE?? Thank you ❤️❤️

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this is kind of a silly worry: i wanted a reusable water bottle for the longest time. i was tired of always buying plastic water bottles. this year, i found a lavender one sale. no complaints, love it. decorated it with cute stickers. it has a drinking sprout connected to a straw. i begin to worry it will give me wrinkles like a smoker because you had to purse and succk daily. im 21 and have some wrinkle like nasolabial and frown due to eyesight and worry it make worse.

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Part 2) i don't think my lines are particularly abnormal at my age. I see stars my age in their early twenties without makeup that look similar and it'll probably cover up if i wore makeup. However, i feel worried using my bottle that i'm developing my wrinkles even more. It feels like I'm pursing my lips in a tighter position when using plastic bottles.

Regularly pursing your lips the way you do when drinking out of a straw may cause the skin to lose elasticity more quickly, which can lead to premature lines and wrinkles around the mouth, although in general drinking through a straw should not cause wrinkles.

But here's the thing- a lot of things can or may cause wrinkles. The repetitive facial movement of drinking out of a water bottle, and drinking literally anything except water, and not drinking enough water, and drinking alcohol, and eating sugar, and living in a climate that's too dry or having a room in your house that's too dry, and sleeping on your stomach or side, and not getting enough sleep, and expressing literally any emotions on your face... and even if you never do anything at all that might cause wrinkles, they'll still develop eventually because collagen breaks down as you age. It's better for your skin (and your overall health) to keep hydrated than to stop drinking out of your reusable water bottle because it might cause fine lines.

Plus, an estimated 80% of wrinkles are a result of sun damage and smoking (and smoking is largely because of the nicotine, not because of the facial movement), so whether you drink out of a straw or not isn't going to make a huge difference in the grand scheme of things. My guess would be that the "straws are giving you wrinkles" people are mostly 1) journalists that need something to write about that they know people will panic over and 2) aestheticians and dermatologists who want to convince you to be insecure about wrinkles so you'll pay them to "fix" the problem. The best thing you can do if you're worried about wrinkles is just to wear sunscreen every day (even on days when it's not sunny) and to have a good skincare routine that's tailored to your specific skin type and needs.

But also, and apologies for getting up on a soapbox here, isn't it more important to take care of your body and enjoy your life than it is to be completely wrinkle-free? Wrinkles are a sign that we've lived and enjoyed ourselves, even if it's just a sign of a small pleasure like drinking out of a water bottle you really like. I know this wasn't really the point of this ask at all, but I'm tired of everything we do being "damaging" in some sense, especially since it seems like these "warning! Thing you do daily can make you less beautiful!" articles are disproportionately about small pleasures that women like and concerned with issues that are invented to make women feel insecure so that they buy things. You never see articles targeted towards men telling them to stop drinking from straws or to be worried about developing wrinkles, and there's not an entire industry dedicated to selling them products to "fix" those wrinkles, you know? It's okay to look your age, and I think it's really damaging that women are led to believe that we need to look like we're 17 for our entire lives in order to be attractive or worthy of attention.

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askagamedev · 5 years

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So Steam is changing the way it shares revenue with games that make over 10 and 50 million USD. Since this change will only apply to the companies big enough to make million-making games, are Valve scared they'll all open up their own stores and pull customers away from Steam?

Several publishers already have. Activision-Blizzard continues to publish Call of Duty on Steam, but they haven’t brought their other big titles like Destiny or any of Blizzard’s titles along with it. EA pulled out of Steam years ago and spent millions building their Origin platform. ZeniMax and Ubisoft continue to publish on Steam, but even Ubisoft’s Steam publisher page looks like it hasn’t been updated in a year.

Valve’s change in monetization has two main purposes. First, they want to keep the big publishers from leaving. Second, they want to entice those who have left to consider returning by offering them a larger cut. This comes at a really interesting time, because Epic has also just announced that they are setting up their own Steam-like online game distribution platform, and they are going to offer an 88/12 split with studios that choose to publish on Epic’s platform. If you’re into industry drama, apparently the people behind Steam Spy, the Steam scraping are also Epic employees and probably used all those data in order to inform their decisions on how to build their own platform.

The success of Epic’s platform is really dependent on a long-term future goal. Steam has an enormous amount of interia thanks to loss aversion. Many players have been using Steam for the better part of a decade; many of us have hundreds of titles in our Steam libraries already. Humans are notorious for avoiding situations that result in a loss of something that belongs to them (like dozens or hundreds of games in your library you swear you’ll get around to playing eventually), so their main plan has to be long-term, slow subsuming of your Steam library. The long-term goal is that you’ll eventually have an Epic library that eclipses your Steam library. This is, of course, dependent on how easy the new platform is to integrate, the platform’s features, and the number of potential customers on that platform.

Epic is, however, doing it right by offering such a large split to the developers as enticement. There’s no better way to get people to take notice than offering a significant boost in their revenues - far more than assistance in marketing, cutting down on costs, etc. As they say, Money Talks. If you remember my old post about the [where the money goes], you should recall that purely digital distribution and no licensing costs result in about $42 going to the publisher per sale and $18 going to the platform per copy sold. Changing that from a 70/30 split to 88/12 means that the devs get $52.80 per copy instead of $42. For a break-even number, that reduces the total number of copies they need to break even on a $120 million game + marketing budget to 2.27 million from about 2.9 million, over 600,000 fewer copies than they’d have to sell on Steam. It’s a pretty big deal, especially because nothing is stopping us from publishing on both platforms.

Overall, my current assessment is that Steam is currently in a position of vulnerability brought bit by bit over the years. Epic has clearly been planning this for a while and decided that this was an opportunity to strike. Overall, this means it’s is a pretty good time to be a developer at a bigger studio. There’s another platform courting developers now, and that’s great for us.

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pbandjesse · 5 years

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What an excellent day. James just left after coming by after his theater shift. I'm laying in front of this box fan trying to stave off the mid atlantic humidity. But i feel good.

I had a lot of trouble falling asleep last night. I was just really freaked out. And the way I woke up this morning was not helping that. Because when I woke up I went in the living room and my screen was open. Like full pushed to the side. Something that you have to do by hand. And I literally never touch my screens. Ever. So now I'm sure somebody tried to break into my apartment last night. I am never living on first floor ever again.

But I left on time and felt okay. I was missing the front bolt on my bike. Another guess that someone was trying to steal it. So James would come by later and bring me a spare bolt that he had. And the cookies he made for my students. He's a very good boyfriend.

I gave myself lots of time so I could go to McDonald's for breakfast. I really wanted a sandwich and orange juice. The orange juice was really expensive. But it was a good breakfast and gave me a lot of energy for training someone on the program this morning.

It was a huge group. I've never had 50 kids and balls and track before. But it went well. And I enjoyed working with them. There were some issues because the one of the groups of boys decided that they needed 10 Marbles and kept losing them and not even trying to find them. And then there was another group who's chaperone decided that the tape didn't stick well enough and so she made them quit the project and just sit there for half of the program. It was absolutely bizarre. I'm sorry that it was humid and the tape wasn't sticking super well but no one else was having these problems. At least not that bad. And it wouldn't have been that big of a deal for me to go and get another roll of tape. It's just very strange to act like that.

I ran scavenger hunt and finished up with them and put things away. And then I headed out. I biked up to see James. He put the bolt on my bike and gave me the cookies and soon enough the bus was there.

I got to work and did some organizing. Got stuff ready for the show. It wasn't a ton I could do so I mostly just worked on their Awards. I was very concerned I was going to spell something wrong. But what I actually did was write 2009 instead of 2019. Thankfully I only did that on one. But still very annoying. I had to turn it into bubble letters to fix it.

I went and picked up the kids and brought them upstairs and they got right into their work. I love how organized and on task they've been lately. I wish they were like that all year. But we did our thing and then we went outside.

It was way too hot. Just uncomfortable. But the playground was fine and the basketball court was open. So the kids got to skateboard and that was nice. I rode around once but my shoes were too slippery and it was too hot. So I just chilled. As best I could.

Dinner was fine and then we went back to the classroom and Chelsea showed them some of their videos and we sowed and we got stuff ready for the art show. Everyone got a task of explaining a project out in the hallway. And I was very proud of them.

During our time I handed out their Awards. And some of them were very confused about what they want. But you know it's fine. I gave them their award and a cookie and they took a coloring book and it was all good. It was decided that we would sell the rest of the books. Starting at $5 and then eventually going down to $3. McKenzy, Chyna, and Deaira were very good sales women and sold all of the books. They made $40. I'm so proud. I'm going to buy the whole class presents from the dollar store with the money. Art supplies and things like that. Probably clay because they love it so much.

It was a really fun night though. Lots of parents came and my kids were really good about showing all the work. We had a lot of trouble showing our video. For some reason the files would not move to the USB plug Chelsi had. So we ended up just bringing her computer into the hallway. And that work just fine.

We got to talk to lots of people and what's a good night. Everyone slowly went home. Me and Chelsi hung back and talked about next week in the party and the field trip and all that. I can't believe the school year is already over. Just one week left.

I left around 6:45 and went to catch the bus. I got home a little after 7. It was a really humid in here but I made dinner and went and worked in my studio for a while. I'm trying to finish that to sculpture for the dentist by the end of the week. I've been putting it off for too long because I've been depressed. But I got all of the bits finished and I got the interior painted. And tomorrow I'll paint all the bits and put it all together and hopefully Thursday finish any details so I can give it to them on Friday. That's the goal for the week.

I took a shower and I've been laying in bed watching videos. I move some stuff down to the basement because someone's coming to look at my apartment tomorrow and I don't want the hallway to be a fire hazard. The whole place is kind of falling apart because I'm in the middle of moving. So it doesn't look great. But that's okay. They'll understand.

James came over around 9. And we laid in bed and talk. I showed him the video I back of my kids art installation. And we made some plans. About this weekend and our anniversary and moving. And then he went home. And now I'm going to get ready for bed

Tomorrow is going to be expensive because I have to take 2 lyft's because I have a very quick turnover in the middle. But that's fine. I never take Lyft so in the long run it's not that big of a deal. Just slightly annoying. I hope you all have a good night though. I hope it's not too humid Where You Are. Good night

#ootd #work #art #kids art #good day #tired #tuesday

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dukereviewstv · 5 years

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Duke Reviews Tv: Smallville 1x11 Hug

Hi, Everyone, I'm Andrew Leduc And Welcome To Duke Reviews Tv, Where We Are Continuing Our Look At Smallville By Talking About Episode 11 Of Season 1, Hug...

This Episode Is About A Corrupt Businessman Named Bob Rickman Who Wants To Buy The Kent Farm To Build A Pesticide Plant But When Jonathan Refuses, Rickman Uses His Ability To Get Anyone To Do Anything He Wishes With Just A Shake Of His Hand To Get Jonathan To Sell Him The Farm, Wanting To Stop The Sale, Clark Goes Off To Find Rickman's Former Partner, Kyle Tippet (Played By The Health Inspector Who Took His Job Too Seriously While Dating Pheobe On Friends)...

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Who Was With Rickman During The Smallville Meteor Shower, Will Clark And Kyle Stop The Sale?

Let's Find Out As We Watch Hug...

We Start In...Metropolis, I Guess As Bob Rickman Talks With A Representative For The CEP Who Asks Rickman About Why His Boys Were Doing Surveying Down In Smallville To Which Rickman Tells The Rep That He's Planning On Building A New Plant Down There...

But In Showing Him Sludge From The Last Small Town That He Placed A Plant In The Rep Tells Rickman No Way, No How And What's Worse Is That He's Giving Rickman A Restraining Order To Stay Out Of Smallville Until Every Case Against Him Is Settled...

With Rickman Asking If There's Anything He Can Do To Stop This, The Rep Tells Rickman That Unlike His Colleagues He's Not Easy To Buy Off Despite Rickman Telling Him That He's Never Bought Off A Soul In His Life But Seeming Like A Good Sport, Rickman Shakes The Rep's Hand And Convinces Him To Commit Suicide...

Back In Smallville, Clark, Lana And Chloe Go Horseback Riding In The Woods Only Unlike Clark And Lana Who Have Ridden Horses Before Chloe Is Horse Impaired If That's Even A Thing..,

With Chloe Dropping Her Camera (As These Woods Are Apparently The Bermuda Triangle Of Smallville) Lana Goes Back To Get It For Her While Chloe Talks With Clark About How Surveyors From Rickman Industries Came Running Out Of The Woods, With No Memory Of What Happened...

Believing That Kyle Tippet Is Behind This, Clark Is Just Like "The Guy Is A Crazy Old Hermit Who Sells Sculptures In Town, How Dangerous Can He Be?"...

Hearing Lana Screaming, Clark Asks Chloe To Stay With The Horses While He Goes To Check It Out...

Finding Kyle Near Lana, He Runs Off When Clark Tells Him To Get Away From Her...

Grabbing At The Camera, Clark Looks At The Tape With Jonathan To Kyle Wasn't Trying To Harm Lana Whatsoever But Lana's Aunt Nell Thinks Differently As She Wants Clark To Go To The Police To Say That Kyle Spooked Lana's Horse And Attacked Her, Which Isn't The Truth...

It's No Wonder, Aunt Nell Became A Member Of The Royal Flush Gang, She's Just Willing To Frame Anybody For Stuff They Didn't Do...

Believing That They Haven't Heard The End Of This, Jonathan Asks Clark If Kyle Seemed Dangerous? To Which Clark Tells Him No, Just Scared, But Remembering What Chloe Said, Clark Wonders If There's A Connection To Which Clark Decides To Go Talk With Kyle Despite Jonathan Telling Him Not To...

Back At Rickman's Smallville HQ, Lex And Victoria Pay Him A Visit...

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Paying Kyle A Visit At His Trailer, He Tells Clark That All He Was Doing Was Making Sure That Lana Was All Right, Asking Him About The Things That Chloe Mentioned, He Doesn't Want To Talk About It, Saying That He Left The World Behind For A Reason...

Asking Why He's So Unfriendly, Kyle Tells Clark That He's Not Interested In Friends Because All They'll Do Is Betray You...

This Is Kind Of True For Clark And Lex's Relationship, Lex Betrayed Clark And He Ended Up Becoming His Enemy...

Talking With Lana And Whitney At The Beanery, Clark Tells Them What Kyle Told Him, Despite Whitney Telling Him That If He Was There He Would Have Done Something About It...

Of Course, You Would, Whitney (Sarcastically) You're The Man...Not!

Running Into Lex On His Way Out, He Warns Clark About Rickman Wanting To Buy The Family Farm And That He's A Locust That Can't Be Trusted...

Paying Rickman A Visit In His Office, Kyle Tells Him To Leave Town...

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Running Into Clark, He Asks Kyle What He Was Doing At Rickman's Only To Face The Anger Of Whitney Who Tells Kyle To Stay Away From Lana Or Else, With Clark Giving Kyle A Ride Home, Whitney Is Confronted By Rickman Who Gets Whitney To Shake His Hand...

Dropping Kyle Off At His House After Picking Up Some Groceries, Clark Asks Him If He Misses Having A Normal Life To Which He Tells Clark That Some People Just Aren't Meant To Have A Normal Life...

Shortly After Leaving Kyle At His Trailer, Kyle Is Attacked By Whitney, Who's Truck Clark Happens To See But When Clark Sees Kyle Attack Whitney, He Pushes Kyle Away So He Can Save Whitney...

With Kyle Being Arrested For Assault, Jonathan Asked What Happened, As Whitney Tells Him That After Kyle. Blew Him Off, He Came Out Here To Talk Because He Had A Feeling That He Was Going To Attack Lana Again...

But Despite Seeing Kyle Swing At Whitney, Clark Believes Kyle When He Tells Him That Whitney Swung At Him First, Which Pisses Off Whitney To No End...

The Next Day At School, Clark Asks Chloe To Try To Find A Connection Between Rickman And Tippet As Lana Comes In Equally Mad At Clark For Saying That Whitney Attacked Kyle, For Which She Believes That Whitney Would Never Hurt Anyone, But With Clark Bringing Up The Scarecrow Incident Again, Lana Marches Off Beliving That Clark Is Using The Incident As An Excuse To Frame Whitney...

Back At The Kent Farm, Rickman Pays Jonathan A Visit...

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With Jonathan Selling The Farm To Rickman, Martha Is Extremely Pissed Off As Jonathan Tells Her And Clark That One Minute He's Telling Him He Doesn't Stand A Chance And The Next Minute He's Holding A Signed Contract...

Calling Their Lawyer, He Tells Martha That He Can't Do Anything Until He Sees The Contract But The Devil Made Me Do It Argument Will Not Hold Up In Court...

Asking What Rickman Did, Jonathan Tells Clark That All He Did Was Make His Case And Get Him To Shake His Hand And That Was It. Going To See Lex, Jonathan Tells Clark No, He Will Not Owe Lex Luthor A Favor But Martha Tells Jonathan To Stuff His Opinion Of Lex As She Tells Clark To Go See Him...

Meeting Lex At The Beanery, He Notices That Lana And Clark Aren't Talking To Which Clark Tells Him That It's Because He Won't Cave On His Opinion About Kyle, This Gets Lex Comparing Clark To Atticus Finch From To Kill A Mockingbird...

But As For The Contract, The Deal Is For 3 Times It's Market Value But The Contract Is Ironclad And A Dozen Extra Lawyers To Deal With It, Luckily, Though Lex Has A Few Million To Spare...

Yes, We Get It, You're Rich, Thank You For Sharing That With Us...

Meanwhile, Rickman Gets A Deputy To Shake His Hand So He Can Get Kyle Out Of His Way...

But Speaking Of Kyle, We Discover That He Has The Same Powers As Rickman When Kyle Gets A Police Officer To Shake His Hand...

With Kyle Disguised In A Police Uniform, Clark Blows His Cover (Great Work, Clark) As The Deputy Rickman Shook Hands With Shoots At Kyle...

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Taking Kyle To Lex's, He Has A Weird, Jack Sparrow-Like Hippie Doctor Named Toby Look At Kyle's Wound And Sew Him Back Up While Mentioning Club Zero Again Making It The 3rd Time We've Heard About It On The Show With The First From Nixon And The Second From Phelan...

Wondering Why Clark Brought Him There, He Tells Lex That If His Parents Saw Kyle, They'd Freak And If He Brought Him To A Hospital, They'd Arrest Him Again, So, This Was The Only Option...

Returning To The Barn, Clark Finds Lana Waiting For Him, But He Doesn't Want To Hear What She Has To Say Despite Her Wanting To Clear The Air To Try To Preserve Their Friendship...

The Next Day At The Beanery, Lex Is Confronted By Rickman, Who Knows That Lex Is Challenging His Sale Of The Kent Farm And He Wonders Why?

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Finding The Connection Between Rickman And Tippet, Chloe Tells Clark And Lex That Rickman And Tippet Were Partners In The 80's Selling Farm Equipment And Were Salemen Of The Year 3 Times In A Row But After That Rickman Started His Own Company And Kyle Went Hermit...

Showing Clark And Lex An Article From The Ledger That Shows That They Were Trapped In A Car During The Smallville Meteor Shower They Decide To Ask Kyle Some Questions At The Luthor Mansion But When They Get There Kyle Is Gone...

Returning To His Trailer, Kyle Packs Up Only To Be Confronted By Clark And Chloe...

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Meanwhile At The Luthor Mansion, Rickman Unexpectedly Drops By To Say That He's Waving The White Flag And The Kents Can Keep Their Farm After Realizing That Smallville Isn't Worth The Hassle, Asking Lex To Shake On It, We Don't See Anything ...

But When Lex Gets A Phone Call From Clark Stating That Kyle Wants To Go Public About Rickman, Lex Meets Them At A Gas Station Saying That He Called His Friends At The Planet And The Inquisitor And If Kyle Is Willing To Talk With Them They'll Write His Story...

Willing To Do Whatever He Has To To Stop Rickman, Kyle And Clark Get In The Car And It's After That We Discover That Rickman Got To Lex...

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(As Lucille Ball) Oh, But Ricky!...

With Rickman Arriving At The Scene, He Gives Lex A Machine Gun, Telling Him To Finish The Job...

Eventually Finding Clark And Kyle Inside Of The Vacant Garage, He Tries To Get Lex To Listen To Him But Unfortunately He Can't Which Leads Lex To Shoot Clark Point Blank, He Isn't Hurt But It Forces Clark To Knock His Friend Into A Bunch Of Objects...

Meanwhile, Rickman And Kyle Face Off For The Last Time...

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And By "Do The Same With His" It Means We Won't See Or Hear Of Kyle For The Rest Of The Series 10 Season Run!

And So, With Martha Healing Clark's Wounds, Jonathan Wonders Where Kyle Is, To Which Clark Tells Jonathan That He's Probably Out In The World Making A Difference Now...

With Lana Dropping By She Decides That She Doesn't Care What Happened To Kyle Now Because Their Friendship Is Worth More Than One Lousy Argument To Which Clark Agrees...

And By "A Long Time" Lana Means 4 And A Half Seasons Of Friendship, 2 Half Seasons Of Hating Each Other, 1 Season Of Romance Before She Ditches You And 5 Episodes Of 1 Season That's Just A Goodbye Before He Moves On To The Person He's Supposed To Be With...

Later In The Afternoon, Lex Visits Clark To Tell Him That Because Of Rickman's Death, They're Not Expanding...

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In More Ways Than 1, Lex...

But That's Hug And It's Okay..

While Not The Greatest Episode, I Didn't Mind It. Everything From Story To Characters To Villain Was Just Okay Not The Best But It's Not The Most Horrible Episode Of The Series And To That, I Say See It...

Till Next Time, This Is Duke, Signing Off...

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There are no some added items that are eliminating the morlock and all kinds one of them is Trump is being attacked they're using bait and it's working part of that bait system is hitting the people issuing it because they are lying about it and they're getting hit by the max also not only that's going on but a regular attrition due to gifted people being in the way of progress is occurring and at factories warehouses distribution centers and point of sale they are being arrested and hauled off and incinerated those two things together equal 0.05% an hour. So every 10 hours is 1% and it's down from 24 hours and it's going upwards so today they are going to try and invade but we don't count on it cuz he always push it off but they're going to attack the pseudo empire in the eastern hemisphere and they're prepping here and they get hit a little over there they'll probably lose 0.8% almost 1% plus globally they'll lose 1% off Island and they're now at 7.5% roughly and we'll go down to possibly 5.5% by tomorrow morning when you get down to about 3% or 2% they will friend bring people from the islands and they will start a war there and we will take from both sides and they were trained the pseudo empire is now at 5.5% and shrinking it slowly but it is not going to last they are not going to make it it is not going to be there day or week or month Trump is going to go first and that will be the signal the rest of them can go cuz they've been taking his stuff and money and gold and Banks and businesses. He doesn't have that many left out of the 7.5% it is roughly 3% by tomorrow morning he will have 1.5% that's right most of them go near him and that people discover that the morlock took everything and they're going to get hit

This is going to be increasing number everyday every hour and they are going to be eradicated soon by the whole world and eventually there will be big hits on them right now they're also planning to try attacks on the empire itself but before that they're going to attack ground bases and laser bases in the eastern hemisphere that's why it's 1%, then we'll get it will come to the Western hemisphere and they've geared up to attack 50% of the laser bases and 100% of the regular basis they're going to get creams and the decision to screw around with us is going to backfire because we're going to track the package. We don't care what's on it we'll put it inside a different envelope and it's true although it should be okay

Thor Freya

Olympus

And I'll see you something is for suckers and we say it is cuz we feel that way and it says you are a sucker your whole life then growing up educating me putting me in jobs and it's not right we're not suckers it's our program I'm going to waffle and I'm not waffle it's just real hard

Daniel

Beside that prison of theirs to sit through this crap and Tommy at this in the way

Mike t

They're going to start the removal ships again and they stopped for a while and they're going to start doing it now those three tunnels will probably take three more days and they're not trying to siphon technique

Thor Freya

I have the setup in the rig and I'm going to try it it's going to be a lot faster because of what we're doing

Bob Marsh

It's going to take a lot less time I admit it I have the rigs too and we're going to try it shortly

Mike too

I haven't seen these rigs and you people are slow and stupid and you're trying to fool him into going slower and he means and we mean you you're f****** farts

Mac daddy

Olympus

You guys are going to be fired soon you're getting fired by the max because of non performance

Zues Hera

We certainly did read that no says go f****** pound sand now go read it stupid s*** leave me the f*** alone you airhead retard so I guess I'm going to have to listen to it no but then we'll clean your clock

Mike tew

We're going to start taking their stuff to such assholes too man these idiots are really really weak and we need their stuff we're just looking at them and telling them to shut up and they don't

Thor Freya

I need to start doing something you seem to start taking their stuff and no one said to stop now get that and we're going in now

Nuada Arrianna

What does it mean issued now we need to take care of this problem here and everywhere

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